Professor Hatef Sadeghi

Professor Sadeghi is Chair of Computational Quantum Engineering and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. His research spans quantum electronics theory and computational quantum engineering, with over 170 publications in journals including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, Nature Chemistry, Nano Letters, PNAS, JACS, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Science Advances, and Angewandte Chemie, and more than 60 keynote and invited talks.

His contributions have been recognised through several fellowships, including a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in June 2017, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (first cohort) in February 2019, a Foundation for Science and Technology Future Leaders Fellowship in January 2020, Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2021, and renewal of his UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in November 2023. He has also been included in the world's top 2% scientists.

He has been principal investigator on externally funded research grants totalling over £6 million (FEC) from UKRI, EU Horizon Europe EIC, Innovate UK, the Royal Society, and the Leverhulme Trust. His publications have received over 7,400 citations (h-index 48, i10-index 115), and his research involves collaborations with more than 30 universities and industrial partners across the UK, Europe, the USA, and Asia.

Prof. Sadeghi's research focuses on the theoretical and computational understanding of quantum phenomena in advanced materials and nanoscale devices, with particular interests in quantum transport, molecular electronics, materials discovery, and multiscale modelling. He has developed new theoretical concepts and computational methodologies in nanoscale electronics, particularly for understanding, controlling, and exploiting quantum, spin and phonon interference in applications ranging from thermoelectric energy conversion and electronic switching to sensing and optoelectronics. He is also a co-developer of the quantum transport code GOLLUM and leads its ongoing development and distribution.

He also serves on the advisory boards of several research and innovation organisations, participates in national and international research funding panels, and regularly reviews research proposals and manuscripts for funding bodies and scientific journals.

Prizes and Awards

01/2021: Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

02/2019: The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Award

04/2017: The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Award

07/2015: Best International PhD Student Award

11/2011: Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellowship Award

Academic Employment

08/2023 - present: Professor of Computational Quantum Engineering and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK

07/2021 - 07/2023: Associate Professor in Multiscale Modelling and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK

09/2019 - 6/2021: Assistant Professor in Multiscale Modelling and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK

05/2019 - 08/2019: Lecturer in Physics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK

05/2018 - 04/2019: Leverhulme Fellow and Senior Research Associate, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK

01/2016 - 04/2018: Senior Research Associate, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK

11/2011 - 12/2015: Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, Physics Department, Lancaster University, UK

Research Funding

The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship - Renewal, Principle investigator, No: MR/X015181/1
Project Title: Hybrid Molecular Energy Harvesting (HiMOL).
Value: £990K | Duration: 01/11/2023 - 30/10/2026

Horizon Europe EIC PathFinderOpen - UKRI InnovateUK Guarantee Scheme, Principle investigator, No: 101099098
Project Title: Atomically Precise Nanoribbons Quantum Platform (ATYPIQUAL).
Value: €3.4M (Warwick share: £772K) | Duration: 01/10/2023 - 31/03/2027

Royal Society - International Exchanges, Principle investigator, No: IES\R3\92223170
Project Title: Enhancement of photocatalytic dehydrogenation activity using quantum interference.
Value: £12K | Duration: 31/03/2023 - 30/03/2025

The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Principle investigator, No: MR/S015329/2
Project Title: Exploiting quantum and phonon interference for molecular thermoelectricity and Seebeck sensing (MoQPI).
Value: £935K | Duration: 01/05/2019 - 30/10/2023 — nanolab.uk/moqpi

FLF Development Network - Plus Funds, Principle investigator, No: PF007
Project Title: Future Leaders Network for Nanoscale Energy Harvesting.
Value: £25K | Duration: 01/12/2021 - 01/12/2022 — nanoleaders.org

University of Warwick Capital Fund, Principle investigator
Project Title: Equipment Fund to Purchase dedicated Computing Nodes
Value: £35K | Duration: 01/01/2020

The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, Principle investigator, No: ECF-2017-186
Project Title: Quantum and Phonon Interference in Molecular-scale Thermoelectric Materials.
Value: £120K | Duration: 01/05/2018 - 30/04/2021 — nanolab.uk/leverhulme

Publications

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